You’d expect someone with a nickname like “The Finisher” to be in the payback business. And you’d especially expect it against the one person who’s ever kept him from living up to the promise of that nickname.

David Rickels used pinpoint striking in the third to outpoint Lloyd Woodard in Bellator’s Season 8 lightweight tournament opening round, and Will Brooks, Alexander Sarnavskiy and Saad Awad moved on, as well.

A little more than a day before the event, Bellator 87 has lost its headliner. Patricky “Pitbull” Freire has suffered a knee injury, and Guillaume DeLorenzi now fights Saad Awad in a Season 8 lightweight-tournament bout.